Re: [EXIM] Bounce messages not originated by us suggestions?

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Author: Peter Bowyer
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Bounce messages not originated by us suggestions?
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From: Kerry Hoath <kerry@???>
To: exim-users@??? <exim-users@???>
Date: 07 October 1998 13:49
Subject: [EXIM] Bounce messages not originated by us suggestions?


>I help an ISP with their mail setup and we are having a strange problem:
>
>Spam is beeing forged from users at our system, who no longer exist to AOL
>addresses who do not exist.
>The message comes from xyzzy@??? (non-existant user) to
>invaliduser@???.
>AOL correctly bounces the message that comes back to us.
>The problem is that our machine accepts the mail and then aparently bounces
>the message back to aol.
>
>What we want to do is reject messages to unknown users on our machine

either
>at smtp time, or if this is not possible, we want to drop messages from
><> to an invalid user into the bit bucket.



Have a look at 'receiver_verify' and its friends.

Peter





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